Lisbet Rausing presented her lecture as the 2011-2012 Una's Lecturer at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Rausing is a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College's Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. She is also the founder of the Arcadia Fund, which since 2001 has made grant commitments of over $181 million to preserve endangered treasures of culture and nature. Rausing is the author of Linnaeus: Nature and Nation as well as numerous scholarly articles, including "Toward a New Alexandria," (The New Republic, March 2010), which addresses the future of libraries and public access to scholarly resources.
Bio Engineering/ME C117: Structural Aspects of Biomaterials - Professor Lisa Pruitt
This course provides an overview of medical devices, FDA regulatory issues, biocompatibility and sterilization technology. It examines biomechanical properties: isotropy/anisotropy, stiffness, bending stresses, contact stresses, multiaxial loading, plasticity, fatigue, fracture, wear, corrosion, design issues. Also covered: Orthopedics, Dental, Cardiovascular, and Soft Tissue Reconstruction.
Professor Pruitt's current research is focused on fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, cyclic damage zones, and evolution of structure due to cyclic loading and environment in advanced polymers and biomaterials; tribology of...
Physics 111 Advanced Laboratory. Professor Sumner Davis
This video accompanies the Atomic Physics Experiment, providing students with an introduction to the theory, apparatus, and procedures for the Zeeman effect part of the lab exercise.
In 1896 Peter Zeeman observed the broadening and polarization of spectral lines of sodium when the source was placed in a magnetic field. Since that time both the changes in the energy levels of an individual atom and the splitting of spectral lines in a magnetic field have carried the name Zeeman Effect.
After observing the principal spectral lines in hydrogen, you will go on to measure the Zeeman effect in a single spectral line of helium. A high voltage discharge tube filled with helium is placed between the poles of an electromagnet. Light from the lamp is analyzed with a Fabry-Perot interferometer. From your data you will calculate the magnitude of the Bohr magneton.
http://advancedlab.org
CS 61B: Data Structures - Fall 2006
Instructor Jonathan Shewchuk
Fundamental dynamic data structures, including linear lists, queues, trees, and other linked structures; arrays strings, and hash tables. Storage management. Elementary principles of software engineering. Abstract data types. Algorithms for sorting and searching. Introduction to the Java programming language.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu
"Nuclear Terrorism"
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Michael A. Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations for a discussion of nuclear terrorism. Levi analyzes the nature of the threat and offers a strategy for dealing with it.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/